Debates / Forums

"The goal of the Mars Hill Forum is to seek truth by embracing the love of hard questions. Rev. John C. Rankin has organized one hundred Mars Hill Forums since 1993."- About Mars Hill Forum

"The guest of the forum was Fred W. Phelps, Sr., pastor of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Pastor Phelps and his church have conducted some 20,000 picket demonstrations across America in protest of various sins. He believes that preaching hatred of homosexuals is part of the gospel he is called to proclaim. John Rankin opposes this viewpoint, arguing that "the true Gospel calls all people to repentance, based on the love of God for all sinners, homosexual or otherwise, and based on the evidence that God is good."

Pastor Phelps asked John Rankin these questions: 1. "I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau." (Malachi 1:2-3) How do you explain those verses? 2. Does God love people in hell?"- Mars Hill Forum #70

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ContraGodLovesFags.com This website provides "information to the gay and lesbian community about what it really means to be gay and believe in God."

This website used to include the following explanation:

GodLovesFags.com was registered as a web domain on April 17, 1998. The owner of the domain registered it out of disgust for Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church's website: godhatesfags.com. [...]

[We monitor] Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church while providing information to the gay and lesbian community about what it really means to be gay and believe in God.

GodLovesFags.com does not discriminate on the basis of religion. We try to provide as wide a variety of gay religious information as we can.